HAGART wrote:What do ears do? What do eyes do? What do fingers, tongues, and the nose do?Nothing. They are useless without a brain to comprehend it. They are just tools to sense with.

It all has to exist in our minds and without it, nothing exists.

Agreed up to that, it's a bit of a leap to say nothing exists without our minds. If I put a bullet in your head, life would go on for me, and reality as we know it would continue to function without your mind.

I think you agree with that too, just like to remind you that we can't forget the external's indifference to our existence.

"There is theoretical abstraction, and then there is true abstraction."

Put a bullet to my head. Go ahead. (Hypothetically of course). All of reality would cease to exist from my point of view.

You were all just dream characters anyway, and nothing mattered and reality was just a vivid sense of importance that didn't really matter. If you live for 1 second, 1 year, 100 years, does it matter? We all end up in the same place: NOTHINGNESS.

Can you prove me wrong?

(This of course all goes back to 'if a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound'....)

And the mind does more than create thoughts, it's not the same thing. Im talking about each and every single experience.

But all of our experiences are in reality a neatly designed string of neural synapses that fire in response to external stimuli. The accumulation of what we call experience is the use of a certain series of synapses again and again making familiar progression for faster mental responses when similar situations occur again.

Or are you asking about the interpretation of reality by the brain thru the inputs provided by our senses?

Is Lucid Dreaming the brains preparation for the next step of human evolution when we can escape the corporeal bond of our bodies?